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write protect error, hard drive
Name: Rick Date: December 15, 2002 at 18:34:06 Pacific OS: windows 98 SE CPU/Ram: Duron 1.3ghz
Comment:
Well, I screwed up and tried to load Windows 98 SE with the boot sector virus enabled. Windows did not load and now when I try to start over and fdisk and reformat I get a write protect error. How do I start over? Thank you
Name: Bill McMinn Date: December 15, 2002 at 18:56:04 Pacific
Reply:
Find out what brand the hard drive is (ie Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital) and then go to the web site for manufacturer of the hard drive and download the 'disk manager' or some other disk utility program (Maxtor calls theirs Max Blast, Western Digital calls theirs 'Data Lifeguard') In one of the diagnostic menus of these programs there should be some thing called 'zero fill' or might refer to the proper term 'low level format' You want to 'zero fill' or low level format' the drive. That will then allow you to put a new FAT32 partition on the drive, then you can do a regular format of the drive and then install Windows 98
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Response Number 2
Name: sultan Date: December 16, 2002 at 08:16:56 Pacific
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hi
iam getting problem with my floppy drive, when ever i try to save file in my flopy its askin write protected error and its not getting saved.even then floppy in not write protected, when iam using new floppy disk then also its displaying the same error, write protected error, even i changed the flopy drive also still also its showin the same error. please suggest me what to do
Summary: Hi, Im having some difficulty trying to fix a friend's PC. His PC spec is: AMD Athlon 800mhz Gigabyte GA-71XE mobo 128mb Ram Fujitsu MPF3204AT 20GB Hard disk Windows 98 He has had it running fine for ...
Summary: I have had this computer for about 3 months now. I recently turned the system on and was confronted by a write protect error on my C drive. I tried to format my drive. When the computer trys to write ...
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